Careers / Jobs:Detroit Community Based Research Program Application Open
2018-11-08 00:00 - 23:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
The Detroit Community Based Research Program (DCBRP) is a social justice focused summer fellowship program run through the University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program that places students with community based organizations in full-time research positions. Students work with community organizations on projects addressing social and environmental justice, food insecurity, human rights, public health, youth development, and more!
https://lsa.umich.edu/urop/students/summer-programs/community-based-research-fellowship.html

Due December 4th by 9AM

Other:February 15, 2019-Michigan in Washington Application Deadline
2018-11-08 00:00 - 12:00 | Off Campus Location
MIW application deadline for regular admission Fall 2019 and early admission Winter 2020.

Other:TEACH – November
2018-11-08 00:00 - 23:59 | C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
Given the nature of November with Thanksgiving break and midterm exams, we will be having 2 modules during the early half of the month at the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.Keep an eye out for information regarding volunteering with TEACH at The Children's Hospital of Michigan – Detroit Medical Center.Please consult the SignUp platform to register for the event and see more detailed information in the GroupMe and previous emails. We are TEACHING FOR HEALING.

Exhibition:Animal Friends: Ceramic Sculpture
2018-11-08 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Marcia Polenberg loves animals, each with its own unique personality, intelligence and expressive range of emotions. Using terra-cotta sculpture clay, Polenberg hand builds her ceramic animals, seemingly bringing them to life. The face of each one-of-a-kind work of art expresses happiness, surprise, mischief, or a free spirit. Every sculpture is glazed and fired many times, building up a rich, textured colored surface. Holding an MFA from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design in ceramics and sculpture and a BA from the City University of New York in painting, Polenberg widely exhibits her creative works in several media: ceramics, paint, graphite and pastel.

Exhibition:Celebrating Science & Art
2018-11-08 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
The brilliantly colored images in this exhibit were taken in the course of scientific research, and are beautiful in their detail, form and symmetry. For each one, an accompanying explanation describes its significance. The subjects of the images are cells, tissues and organs, from a wide variety of biological sources (plants, worms, fruit flies, fish, mice and yes, even human brain). The colors are added by investigators, to allow them to see the otherwise transparent tissues. By looking at these microscopic images, you will learn about research into normal embryonic development as well as cutting-edge investigations into diseases such as basal cell carcinoma, bipolar disease, epilepsy and cancer.

Meeting:Emerging Scholars
2018-11-08 08:00 - 20:00 | Haven Hall - Library Room (5639)
TBA

Exhibition:Innovations in Ornament
2018-11-08 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
This group show of jewelry and ornaments includes the work of Roger Martin, who tackled the subject of a raven by relying on planes and shadow lines to imbue the surfaces of the bird with personality. Another one of the seven artists, Lorraine Kolasa, picked up the old fashioned art of tatting, then cast tiny pieces of her handmade lace into sterling silver jewelry. Michael Nashef, who spent half his life in war-torn Lebanon, has created a series of innovative vessels and brooches. Other artists included in this exhibit are Kim Cridler, Roger Smith, Renee Zettle-Sterling and Ruth Taubman, whose unmatched exuberance of color and 36 years of work and business innovation, place her jewelry firmly on the national stage.

Exhibition:Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition
2018-11-08 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, students, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category, Best in Show, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery, date TBA. For more information, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.

Exhibition:Organic Fiction: Acrylic on Canvas
2018-11-08 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
Hava Gurevich’s colorful abstractions feature botanical, aquatic and microscopic motifs as she explores repeating patterns in nature. Blending images from the real world and her imagination, Organic Fiction celebrates nature in all its beauty, chaos and complexity. Hava Gurevich received a BFA in photography from U-M and an MFA in painting from Illinois State University. Her creative process begins with photographs and sketches of details in nature, such as tree branches, ice patterns, twisted vines, and delicate spring blossoms. These drawings contribute to her personal vocabulary of shapes and gestures, and she often digitally combines them with older paintings to become starting points of new works.

Exhibition:Pacific Underwater Photography
2018-11-08 08:00 - 17:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
A passionate diver for more than 22 years, Lucy S. Wu is a self-taught artist. She started with film photography and now works in digital. This exhibit displays her friends of the sea and the stunning colors and patterns of the underwater world. Her “aquarium” is the Pacific Ocean along the southeastern Asian coastline from Australia north to the Philippines, as well as Micronesia and the Galapagos Islands. Her goal is to show the beauty and character of the life she encounters, with the hope that her photography will inspire ocean conservation. Wu grew up in Ann Arbor and is now based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Careers / Jobs:Ryerson Thrill Design Competition
2018-11-08 08:00 - 23:59 | Universal's Cabana Bay
Our first attendance to Ryerson's annual Theme Park Design Competition! This is the largest themed entertainment competition in the world, and is done in partnership with Universal Studios Florida. A true test of both engineering and themed entertainment skills, this one will surely challenge involved members.

Exhibition:Strokes of a Reed Pen: Arabic Calligraphy
2018-11-08 08:00 - 20:00 | University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
Dr. Nihad Dukhan’s modern Arabic calligraphy designs have a cross-cultural and personal form. He also creates classical designs using natural ink on ahar paper and acrylic on canvas, with pure gold and gouache color geometric and vegetal ornamentations. A native of Gaza, Palestine, Dukhan is now based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, and is a professor of mechanical engineering at University of Detroit Mercy. He received his master’s degrees in Arabic/Islamic calligraphy in Istanbul and the US after 15+ years of study. As a master of this time honored art tradition, he hopes to reach across cultural barriers and provide messages of oneness and shared values.

Exhibition:David Cope: Player of Invisible Keys
2018-11-08 08:30 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections, 6th Floor
Celebrate the work of Michigan poet David Cope, once described by Allen Ginsberg as one of the "leading lights of the next generation." This exhibit draws on drafts, proofs, and other documents from Cope's archive to offer a glimpse into his poetic and editorial process.

Working most often in the Objectivist tradition of Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, and George Oppen, David Cope has a particular gift for descriptive detail and for juxtaposing the the intimacy of daily life with commentary on the arc of current events and the particularity of personal relationships with the universality of human experience. He received the Pushcart Prize for “The Crash” in 1977 and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for On The Bridge (1986). Additionally, for more than forty years, Cope has edited and published a small press literary magazine, The Big Scream, providing a venue for more than 200 poets, including both big names names and younger, lesser-known poets. Earlier this year, Ghost Pony Press released Cope’s eighth poetry collection: The Invisible Keys: New and Selected Poems.

On view during Special Collections Research Center hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Lecture / Discussion:"Ultrasound Elasticity Imaging and Therapeutics"
2018-11-08 09:00 - 10:00 | Chrysler Center - 133
Elasticity imaging techniques aim at the detection of tissue abnormalities following an external, internal or inherent mechanical stimulation. By taking advantage of the additional depth information provided by ultrasound imaging, the local tissue response (i.e., displacement, strain and/or vibration amplitude) that depends on its mechanical properties can be imaged. After introducing methods for 2D and 3D strain estimation, examples will be shown on imaging of normal and pathological myocardium in finite-element models and in vivo murine, canine and human subjects. Elasticity Imaging developed by our group also expands to Pulse Wave Imaging for the characterization of abdominal aortic aneurysms and atherosclerotic plaques in vivo, Electromechanical Wave Imaging for the assessment of the conduction properties of the myocardium and the radiation-force-based oscillatory technique of Harmonic Motion Imaging (HMI) for the characterization of breast and pancreatic tumors during tumor progression as well as after chemotherapeutic treatment.
In the second part of this lecture, therapeutic ultrasound techniques will be introduced together with application of elasticity imaging for simultaneous monitoring of the treatment procedures. Most precisely, Focused Ultrasound (FUS) for ablation of tumors substantially modifies the tissue stiffness by up to a ten-fold in order to annihilate their function. By monitoring this stiffness change, HMI can successfully detect the temperature rise and coagulation onset during treatment. An all ultrasound-based system providing simultaneous tumor detection and treatment application as well as monitoring will be described. Finally, brain applications for drug delivery through the opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) for brain drug delivery in conjunction with microbubbles will be shown as well as neuromodulation of both the peripheral and central nervous system.

Elisa Konofagou, Ph.D., is a Robert and Margaret Hariri Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at Columbia University.

Exhibition:Exhibition | Urban Biographies, Ancient and Modern
2018-11-08 09:00 - 16:00 | Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Human beings are political animals, said the Greek philosopher Aristotle: animals that live in the “polis,” the Greek word for city. Over two thousand years later, we are still political animals, and the study of ancient cities is of abiding interest, for our perceptions of the urban centers of the past continue to exert a powerful hold on modern culture.

This exhibition showcases three Classical cities where the University of Michigan sponsors field projects: Gabii in Italy, Olynthos in Greece, and Notion in Turkey. The archaeologists excavating these cities, in collaboration with students and faculty from U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, are comparing their findings to projects of urban rebuilding in contemporary Detroit, asking two main questions: How do contemporary archaeological methods facilitate the study of both ancient and modern cities? And how can the study of the past help illuminate the challenges and opportunities facing Detroit today?

Lead Curator: Christopher Ratté
Co-Curators: Lisa Nevett, Nicola Terrenato, and Kathy Velikov

Visit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/urban-biographies
